Word: stronger
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...confrontational nature of recent history has developed in some individuals on the left (and the right) an appetite for self-righteous hatred and self-dramatizing "unmaskings." In these individuals, the urge to feed this appetite has grown stronger than the impulse to honestly scrutinize the object of the attack to see if it is warranted. Sociobiology has a few faint and superficial resemblances to "Social Darwinism," as far as I can tell, limited to the use of the term "Darwinism." Every other aspect is profoundly different. They bear the same relationship to each other as phrenology does to neuroanatomy. Anyone...
...President reserved his bitterest tones for the condition of the hostages, who he said were "bound and abused and hreatened," despite Iran's assurances of good treatment. In private, Carter used even stronger language.* He complained to a delegation of New England Democrats that the Iranian militants were brainwashing the hostages by isolating them from each other and telling them that they had been abandoned by the U.S. The President said that the hostages have not been allowed to bathe or change their clothes, that some have been punished for speaking and that others have been threatened at pistol point...
...then again, neither could Yale. The Bulldogs, who came onto the ice singing and cheering each period, showed a much stronger bark than bite for the first two periods, with skating that looked more like a Marx Brothers extravaganza than a hockey game...
...threatened by mediocrity on the one hand and by fiscal instability on the other? This institution is an extraordinarily fine one. It has vastly increased the number of outstanding faculty since I've been here. There's not a single continuing program in Boston University that is not vastly stronger today from an academic standpoint than it was when I came here. And this institution is far stronger financially. And it is far more visible, nationally and internationally...
...charged higher deductibles on claims-$500 on the majority of crashes instead of the standard $200. Rates for the accident-prone rise steeply. But that is the whole idea: to shift more of the financial burden to those responsible for wrecks. Adults and adolescents alike will have an even stronger incentive to slow down and stay sober...